Top diplomats from Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar rejected any forcible displacement of Palestinians during a meeting in Cairo on Saturday, according to a joint statement.
The meeting came after US President Donald Trump floated an idea to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan.
The foreign ministers rejected any “infringement of the inalienable rights” of Palestinians, whether by “settlement, expulsion, home demolitions, annexation, depopulation of the land of its people through displacement, encouraged transfer or the uprooting of Palestinians from their land”.
Both Egypt and Jordan — key US allies in the region — have repeatedly rejected Trump’s proposal to “clean out” the Gaza Strip.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Wednesday that the “displacement of the Palestinian people from their land is an injustice…
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